Price freeze halts upcoming increases across industries
President Nixon's 60 day price freeze halted planned hikes across steel, auto, and publishing firms. U S Steel and Bethlehem Steel delayed increases, Goodyear rescinded tire price hikes, Dow halted some magnesium prices, and three newspapers rolled back proposed newsstand rate rises.
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United Press International
Nixon
American Motors
General Motors
Ford
Chrysler
U.S. Steel Corp
Bethlehem Steel
U.S. Steel
Jones & Laughlin
Armco
Kaiser
Wheeling Pittsburgh
Republic
National Steel
Inland Steel
Goodyear Tire and Rubber Co
Akron
Ohio
Midland
Mich
Dow Chemical Co
Dow
Washington Post
Washington Star-News
Portland Oregonian
Washington
SRP seeks bids for $75 million revenue bonds
Salt River Project in Phoenix invited bids on 75 million dollars of municipal revenue bonds to fund electric facility construction and improvements. SRP president Karl Abel announced bids would be opened on June 20.
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Phoenix
Salt River Project
Karl Abel
SRP
AEA seeks intervention in Arizona school finance suit
The Arizona Education Association asks the Arizona Supreme Court to allow it to join a case challenging the state funding of public schools. The brief urges upholding the 1972 superior court ruling that invalidated the system relying mostly on local district property taxes.
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AEA
Phoenix
Arizona Education Association
State Supreme Court
Arizona
Superior Court
Park fights clinic closing at Grand Canyon village
The National Park Service plans to sue to stop Samaritan Health Service from closing its Grand Canyon clinic. Samaritan president Stephen Morris says the facility has consistently lost money and faces a $40,000 deficit next year. Ulm to hold safety hearings on Magma Copper Co operation June 25 with Unity Council support.
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Park Fights
Phoenix
National Park Service
Samaritan Health Service
Grand Canyon
Stephen Morris
Samaritan
Oracle
John Scott Ulm
D-Tucson
Magma Copper Co
San Manuel
Ulm
Unity Council
Prison guards cleared in Maricopa County case
The Department of Public Safety said no charges will be filed over an alleged plot to kill two Maricopa County Superior Court judges. An investigation cleared state prison guards of receiving payoffs in an escape plan by two inmates.
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Phoenix
Maricopa County
Department of Public Safety
Carl Needham
DPS
Obituary for Marjorie Mermis of Scottsdale
Marjorie D. Mermis 58 a member of Villa Monterey and Maricopa County Medical Society Auxiliaries died at home in Scottsdale. She assisted her husband Dr. William J. Mermis Sr. in Phoenix and previously in Youngstown Ohio. Survived by husband son daughter mother and siblings. Rosary Friday and Mass Saturday at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church burial at Green Acres Memorial Gardens.
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Marjorie D. Mermis
Villa Monterey
Rosary
Messinger Mortuary
F. Indian School Rd
Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church
2Nd Street
Miller Road
Scottsdale
Green ‘Acres Memorial Gardens
Frank DeGanahl 78 Former Red Cross Deputy Dies in Carefree
Former Red Cross Europe deputy commissioner from World War II era Frank DeGanahl dies at 78 in Carefree Arizona. He led Fleetwings Inc through wartime expansion earning an Army Navy FE award and served in World War I with a battlefield commission. Survivors include his wife Jean two sons and a grandson. Cremation followed private services at Green Acres Mortuary.
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Frank DeGanahl
Red Cross
Europe
Carefree
DeGanahl
Fleetwings, Inc
Bristol, Pa
South America
Africa
Columbia
Tampico
Mexico
Arizona
Fair Haven
N.J
Jean
Charles
Suffield, Conn
James DeGonahl
Sanford, Fla
Green Acres Mortuary
Paradise Valley Residents Seek Growth Cap for Camelback Desert School
About 40 neighbors petition the town council to limit expansion of the Camelback Desert School at 6050 N Invergordon Rd. Residents cite impacts on neighbors and fence incidents. The town manager notes the school has nonconforming use history and seeks a special use permit to legalize operation with a cap of 214 students, current enrollment about 193.
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Paradise
Valley
N. Invergordon Rd
Lunsford Yandell
Oscar A. Butt
Jerry Rosenheim
William Barton
Butt
Barton
Major Montgomery Wheeler Funeral Mass Set
Major Montgomery Wheeler, retired Naval lieutenant commander, to lie in state at Our Lady of Perpetual Help Church with burial at St. Francis Cemetery. He served in World War I with Naval Intelligence in Darwin and Guerrilla Unit on Mindanao, earning multiple medals. He later led GE Australia operations, retiring in 1966, and resided in Scottsdale and Villa Monterey. He is survived by his wife Janis Harrell Wheeler. Funeral by Messinger Mortuary.
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Montgomery Wheeler
Our Lady of Perpetual Help
Second Street
Miller Road
St. Francis Cemetery
Wheeler
Naval Intelligence
Darwin
Australia
10Th Military District
Mindanao
Nimitz- MacArthur
General Electric Corporation
General Electric
Melbourne
Mr. Wheeler
Norfolk
University of California At
Los Angeles
Beta Theta Pi Fraternity
Scottsdale
Villa Monterey
E. Medlock
Janis Harrell Wheeler
Messinger Mortuary
Weekend Valley Forecast Stays Cool With Pleasant Mid June Temps
The Valley will see highs in the low 90s through Sunday with overnight lows in the mid to high 60s. An unseasonably cold air mass over the western U.S. keeps temperatures 10 to 15 degrees below normal for two days. Only the far north may see a shower. subfreezing temps possible tonight above 6,000 feet, Hawley Lake near mid 20s. Scottsdale posted a high of 97 and a low of 61.
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Phoenix
National Weather Service
Hawley Lake
White Mountains
Martin heads Southwest District Exchange Clubs convention
Duane Martin and Jon Schwindt were elected president and district secretary respectively at the Southwest District Exchange Clubs seventh annual convention in Carefree. James Scott was named Youth of the Year and Scottsdale Club won attendance and scrapbook awards. Over 200 delegates from 20 clubs attended June 8 to 10.
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Duane Martin
82Nd St
Southwest District
Carefree Inn
Jon Schwindt
E. Catalina
Martin
Wagon Wheel
Schwindt
Arizona State University
Scottsdale Exchange Club
James Scott
Coronado High School
Houston
Texas
Scottsdale
Phoenix
New Mexico
Arizona
Carefree
Scottsdale man, 22, shot self after confrontation
Donald Lee Webster of 7544 E Edgemont Ave, 22, was listed in poor condition at Scottsdale Memorial Hospital after shooting himself in the head late Thursday night. He forced entry to Mrs. Katie Trevino's home at 7711 E Beatrice St, sought to talk to her, and after she locked herself in a bedroom, a gunshot was heard and Webster was found on the floor by Olivia Martinez of Phoenix.
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Scottsdale
Arcadia
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Patti) Stillman
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